Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

If Shannon Airport is to be separated from the DAA and it is to have a long-term future, I would like to see it survive and operate within the rules set down under international law. I am merely making the point that the United Nations has some serious reservations about this matter and has stated it is concerned about allegations that Irish airports have been used as transit points for so-called rendition flights of persons to countries where they risk being subjected to torture or ill-treatment. It has also indicated that the state party should "establish a regime for the control of suspicious flights and ensure all allegations of so-called renditions are publicly investigated". Laws may be in place, but they are not always implemented. An inspection regime must be put in place in order that we might rest assured that what the Americans are doing and informing us that they are doing falls within the rule of law. The testimony provided by Bradley Manning last week was frightening.

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